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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 2, 2023, 7:14 PM CDT for Houston County, Texas. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 2, 2023, 7:14 PM CDT (00:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2023, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.75 in
County Houston County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 195 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 5:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 204 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 155 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -196 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1637 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 338 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazos, Burleson | 46 min |
| Apr 2, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Burleson | 31 min |
| Apr 2, 10:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Washington | 30 min |
| Apr 3, 3:49 PM CDT | Rip Current Statement | HGX | Brazoria, Galveston, Matagorda | 4 days |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.